
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................................ 4
Purpose ............................................................................................................................................... 4
Design .................................................................................................................................................. 4
Findings ............................................................................................................................................... 4
Business implications .......................................................................................................................... 4
Research limitations ............................................................................................................................ 4
BIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................................. 5
INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Background to the Study .................................................................................................................... 5
RESEARCH DESIGN .................................................................................................................................. 6
Aims and Objectives ............................................................................................................................ 6
Research Questions ............................................................................................................................ 6
Research methodology ....................................................................................................................... 7
DISCUSSION OF DATA SOURCES / TOOLS/ APIS AND JUSTIFICATION OF CHOICE .................................. 8
Data Sources ....................................................................................................................................... 8
Facebook: ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Twitter: ............................................................................................................................................ 8
Reddit: ............................................................................................................................................. 8
Kaggle: ............................................................................................................................................. 8
Data Scraping Tools and APIs .............................................................................................................. 9
Twitter API ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Tweepy ............................................................................................................................................ 9
SNscrape ......................................................................................................................................... 9
Twint ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Sentiment Analysis Tools .................................................................................................................... 9
Vader ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Textblob ........................................................................................................................................ 10
NLTK .............................................................................................................................................. 10
Data Visualising Tools ....................................................................................................................... 10
Tableau .......................................................................................................................................... 10
Power BI ........................................................................................................................................ 10
Python Visualisation Library .......................................................................................................... 10
Justification of Choice ................................................................................................................... 11
VISUALIZATION OF KEY RESULTS AND STORY TELLING ........................................................................ 11
Sentiment Analysis: CNN and Al Jazeera Twitter Followers ............................................................. 11